Needless to say this has me pretty hard. If it's revealed to indeed be a proper Metroid Prime game and it looks to be shaping up well I'd have trouble not dropping $300 on a console for it, I'm that starved for some quality Metroid action.

I would agree with you if it wasn't 4 years since they released Tropical Dong. As for overhyped media, as far as I know the media hasn't reported on it since not very many people really follow them on twitter, where they've been putting up notices that they're hiring for new positions: https://twitter.com/RetroStudios/status ... 7622742018. Though I admit this is grasping at straws, a man has to keep hope alive somehow.

Less of a tease for Prime and maybe more that they may just be trying to draw attention to themselves in general. After Tropical Freeze there was a lot of media hype about where Retro will go next but it never went anywhere and Retro fell off the map (I would even say people stopped caring and they went kind of irrelevant for a while). Maybe this is an attempt to draw some of those eyes back on them just to remind people they aren't dead.

"Cut! There are no second chances for actors that fall to the abyss. Await your second casting in the darkness forever." - The Night of Wallachia

Nintendo apparently has a new internal development team on the project. Their new blood has been on a roll lately with Splatoon and ARMS so if nothing else we can expect something unique, or at least a unique twist on the established formula. Right now I'm just hoping that if they stick with FPS that Nintendo doesn't feel the need to shoehorn in some form of competitive multiplayer. There's more than enough of that on the market at the moment and it's never sat right with Metroid in the first place. If anything hold it off for another spinoff, like a proper Hunters sequel, and leave MP4 singleplayer focused.